As Santa’s brought some early Gifts for a few
notable Drivers…
Yeah, where does the time go? Especially when
Yuhs Haven’t even begun your Christmas shopping Ho Ho Ho! As the following
Gifts have already been wrapped up…
Topping the list is the welcomed announcement
that Bad Arse Femme fatale Jamie Chadwick will drive Mikey A’s No. 28 Andretti
Autosport entry in Indy NXT next year. As Y’all may recall, Chadwick’s completely
Dominated the Global Women’s W Series. Having won the championship Three times in-a-row,
i.e.; 2019, 2021-2022. Since the series didn’t compete in 2020, being Cancelled
due to COVID-19.
Looking forward to how Jamie fares as the only
Female in NXT, and the first Female to compete Full season since Pippa Mann’s
2010 Indy Lights campaign!
As Chadwick’s won 11 races, 18 Podiums and 10
Pole positions enroute to Her three W Series titles, but will have Her Hands
Full going up against HMD Motorsports nine car Armada…
Next, I’m sure Y’all know about former FIA
Formula 2 Driver Marcus Armstrong joining Chip Ganassi Racing’s (CGR) No. 11
IndyCar entry for it’s Twisties’ portion, i.e.; Road courses and Street
circuits next year. With it’s Ovalmeister’ to be named soon. As this fourth CGR
entry was previously Jimmie Johnson’s #48 ride.
And listening to Marshall Pruett’s Dec 2nd Week
in IndyCar Podcast recently. With the Help of Marshall’s Tease. I immediately
blurted out Takuma Sato’s name for who’ll fill the Oval portion of the No. 11
entry’s roster! Since Pruett seems to think that it won’t be Ryan Hunter-Reay…
On the Sports Car side of the equation, it’s No
surprise that CGR has announced that Scotty “Thee Iceman 2.0” Dixon will
Co-Drive the team’s brand new Cadillac GTP entry at the fast approaching Rolex
24, January 28-29, 2023.
As Dixon will join regular season Drivers
Render Van der Zande and Sebastien Bourdais behind the wheel of Arse-sumedly
Cheep’s #01 entry. With the Caddy’s being the only naturally aspirated Hybrid IMSA
GTP entry. As you’d think they should have the leg up upon reliability?
Whilst it’s somewhat surprising reading that Dixon
will be going for His fifth Rolex timepiece for Overall victories, which would
tie Him with the races two winningest Drivers, i.e.; Hurley Haywood and Scott
Pruett.
Oh Yeah, suppose I’d be remiss to not mention
that Colton Herta will be part of Team BMW RLL’s #24 BMW M Hybrid V-8 GTP entry.
And that Meyer Shank Racing’s (MSR) IndyCar Boyz’ Helio Castroneves and Simon
Pagenaud will once again Moonlight at the Rolex 24 in the team’s #60 Acura ARX-06
GTP entry.
Lastly, as Pruett had “predicted” following a
Tweet from ScottyMac’. It’s now official that Team Penske Drivers Josef Newgarden
and Scott Mclaughlin will partner CGR Development Driver Kyffin Simpson. Along with
Tower Motorsports Owner John Farano in the team’s No. 8 Oreca/Gibson LMP2 entry
at the upcoming 24 Hours of Daytona.
Since Marshall also mentioned that in order for Newgarden and McLaughlin to most likely drive their Day Job Boss’s Porsche 963 GTP entries in the future, they’ll need to get their collective “Feet Wet” in Sports Car racing. Since both IndyCar Drivers appear to want to race at the Mack Daddy event, Ye 24 Huers du Mans sometime in the future. And it seems only natural that they’d become Porsche Penske Sports Car Endurance Specialist in the future…
